Dart River
Glacier-fed braided river flowing through beech forest and alpine valleys into a lake's northern end.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Dart River near Queenstown is about the people who drive its jet boats, told partly in the words of Mick Holzmann, who has worked this river since the mid-nineteen-nineties. It follows a sheep farmer's workshop in the nineteen-fifties, a Gore couple with a single five-seat boat, and the Ngāi Tahu ancestors who came up this valley first. Best heard on the riverbank, watching the grey shingle braids.
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